Only foolish (lowercase f) investors believe market capitalization (or number of shares times share price) is meaningfull as any real metric of the value of a company or it's stock. It can be a valuable indicator of a company that's price is way to high though (usually because of stupid investors).
Do note that market cap is a far better indicator of what people think the company is worth than stock price. If you own x% of the company and you can sell your shares for y$, it's completely irrelevant if the number of shares is one or a million. It is the value of the company in the sense that it's what you can sell your shares of the company for. You can argue that it's not a real value since the buyers are foolish, but it doesn't change the fact that you can convert your shares to money at that price.
What you are really saying is that looking at the market cap can tell you that the market cap, therefore stock price, is unrealistically high. Cisco with a market cap of 500B would have to make 30+B profit / year for the stock to be correctly valued. There's no way the market for their products can become large enough. Some years ago, I realized many telecom companies is Europe had a market cap of around 50k euros per customer. There's no way the average customer would pay them 3k a year, much less give them that much profit. That bubble burst too.
The first article of his I read was on exceptions vs return values. It was on or just after April 1st, so I thought is was an April Fool's article, since every single thing he wrote seemed wrong. After reading it I scrolled up to verify the date and found out the text was several months old.
They choose who will survive every month, which seems a bit pointless. You can easily weed out a rhino without needing a million people to tell you she's ugly. Having every individual user converge on what he finds attractive would be a far faster way of getting results and would also preserve individual tastes better.
I'd suggest generations of 10-20 individuals and picking one of two choices to be in the next generation. It would converge very fast, I'd assume halving the parameter space every five clicks. According to this they have eight measurements down to the millimeter with maybe 300-500mm average possible range. 400^8 is about 10^21 is about 2^60, giving 300 clicks to get down to the millimeter accuracy. Assuming no one cares whether a woman is 1681 or 1682mm tall and only full centimeters matter, around 200 clicks or 40 generations should be enough.
You could rate the hawtness of other individual's final generation on a scale of 1 to 10 as a separate task.
Why on earth would you need to watch video faster than the actual speed of the video? I checked a random 1080p video file I had on my hard drive (yes, porn) and it has a bitrate of 2 megabytes/s. Randomly googling for HD tests I found that the difference between a slow drive and a Velociraptor is that you can watch a 2h movie in 8 minutes with a slow drive and 4 minutes with a fast one. Yet you suggest waiting the 8 mins _before_ starting to watch the movie? Didn't it cross your mind that if you can copy it from a slow drive to a faster one in 5 mins, you can watch it directly from the slow one assuming it's actually more than 5 mins of video?
In addition, the first man in space was Juri Gagarin, put there by the communist Soviet Union. Private enterprise may be the future of space travel, but it has little to do with the history.
Perhaps the site would get paid, but that's really not important in the long run. The actual profit is only made when a customer buys something from the advertiser. Making uninterested people listen to a sales pitch is a waste of time. Generating ad views that have no chance of generating a sale is doing a disservice to both the advertiser and the viewer.
How would you feel about an ad blocker that loads the ads in the background without showing them to the reader? That's fine, because Ars Technica gets paid?
It's interesting to imagine the first lonely human writers at the dawn of written language - how many wrote things only they themselves could understand, before coincidence formed the first community of proto-literate people? How much of this early writing was just the smooth flow of art - abstract or representational - into more concrete meanings relevant to the every day lives even of the illterate?
Are you really asking about the ratio of a) Written languages invented fully formed, spread when several individuals who had invented a written language met by accident and b) Written languages evolved from simple symbols?
I'd say the ratio is about the same as animals created from scratch vs. evolved from simpler ones.
And why exactly should any company be required to provide a service to an out of spec or non-compliant device?
Car analogy time. In fact, it's so blatantly obvious I won't even bother writing it down. Instead, I'll turn your claim on its head. Why exactly should any company be allowed to refuse to provide a service to a compatible device?
I may be overly cynical, but I think the talk of piracy while eroding / bypassing every consumer protection law under the sun is more for political reasons than to reassure their customers. They want to cover their asses in advance of the inevitable EFF lawsuits. If they lose any of those, they'll lobby for new laws.
Yes, charging buyers of pre-owned games 20 bucks will show those dirty pirates. In other news, as part of my own ongoing fight against piracy I'll install self-destruct mechanisms and DRM in cars and charging 1k for every driver authentication beyond the first. Because I don't want my car analogies to be pirated. It makes perfect sense, I assure you.
Politicians make the laws. They can't just shrug and say "The courts already decided the issue".
That said, the ISPs have no incentive to spend money policing their customers. I don't think the studios are prepared to pay for any filtering either. Despite what they claim, they don't see piracy as a big enough money drain that spending loads of cash on ISP level policing would be worth it. Piracy is just an excuse to get tighter copyright laws.
I've paid a total of around 500 euros for unlimited data + all my phone calls and text messages over the last two years. Apparently the price of my phone is something like -1000$. Alternatively, the price of a Nexus One is $1500 and T-Mobile bills it as $500 up front and $40 / month over two years.
I checked some Finnish web stores and it looks like the price here is 650 euros, which is around $890. Add the $700 for two years of usage and you have $1600 total.
Statutory damages are pre-established damages for cases where calculating a correct sum is deemed difficult
This still doesn't mean they should be significantly higher than the actual damages. They're currently several orders of magnitude higher than any reasonable approximation of actual damages. Difficult to calculate != set the figure high to punish people more.
I can count the number of dropped calls I've had on Verizon over the past 8 years or so on my hands. The issue is AT&T, T-Mobile, and other poor quality carriers, not something inherent to the United States.
It's obviously related to signal strength, the capacity of the network or how the handovers from one tower to another are handled. It always surprises me how people think the size of the surrounding nation affects things like broadband availability and cell phone coverage. Don't give your carriers a free license to suck based on some misplaced nationalistic pride.
And such a wonderful world we live in. A device that provides the same functionality as an old VHS recorder is illegal because it needs to bypass DRM to work. Never mind that we've had VHS for 30+ years and TV shows have been broadcast unencrypted for half a century.
Obviously anyone who wants to release a torrent can easily bypass the DRM and anyone who wants the non-DRM version can download it for free. The only ones who suffer are the ones who pay for their content and won't buy illegal hardware.
>.2 seconds per hole
Too slow. Much, much too slow. Call me when it can equal 600 strokes a minute on a conventional press.
600 a minute is.1 seconds per hole, not so far from.2. Did you misread it as 2? Presumably a process without physical moving parts can be speeded up more easily as well.
It's unlikely there are other civilizations in our galaxy. Traveling end-to-end with 0.1 c would take just a million years and the galaxy has been here for 10 000 times that time. Unless we kill ourselves somehow, we'll colonize the galaxy in the next few million years.
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Do note that market cap is a far better indicator of what people think the company is worth than stock price. If you own x% of the company and you can sell your shares for y$, it's completely irrelevant if the number of shares is one or a million. It is the value of the company in the sense that it's what you can sell your shares of the company for. You can argue that it's not a real value since the buyers are foolish, but it doesn't change the fact that you can convert your shares to money at that price.
What you are really saying is that looking at the market cap can tell you that the market cap, therefore stock price, is unrealistically high. Cisco with a market cap of 500B would have to make 30+B profit / year for the stock to be correctly valued. There's no way the market for their products can become large enough. Some years ago, I realized many telecom companies is Europe had a market cap of around 50k euros per customer. There's no way the average customer would pay them 3k a year, much less give them that much profit. That bubble burst too.
The first article of his I read was on exceptions vs return values. It was on or just after April 1st, so I thought is was an April Fool's article, since every single thing he wrote seemed wrong. After reading it I scrolled up to verify the date and found out the text was several months old.
They choose who will survive every month, which seems a bit pointless. You can easily weed out a rhino without needing a million people to tell you she's ugly. Having every individual user converge on what he finds attractive would be a far faster way of getting results and would also preserve individual tastes better.
I'd suggest generations of 10-20 individuals and picking one of two choices to be in the next generation. It would converge very fast, I'd assume halving the parameter space every five clicks. According to this they have eight measurements down to the millimeter with maybe 300-500mm average possible range. 400^8 is about 10^21 is about 2^60, giving 300 clicks to get down to the millimeter accuracy. Assuming no one cares whether a woman is 1681 or 1682mm tall and only full centimeters matter, around 200 clicks or 40 generations should be enough.
You could rate the hawtness of other individual's final generation on a scale of 1 to 10 as a separate task.
Why on earth would you need to watch video faster than the actual speed of the video? I checked a random 1080p video file I had on my hard drive (yes, porn) and it has a bitrate of 2 megabytes/s. Randomly googling for HD tests I found that the difference between a slow drive and a Velociraptor is that you can watch a 2h movie in 8 minutes with a slow drive and 4 minutes with a fast one. Yet you suggest waiting the 8 mins _before_ starting to watch the movie? Didn't it cross your mind that if you can copy it from a slow drive to a faster one in 5 mins, you can watch it directly from the slow one assuming it's actually more than 5 mins of video?
.jp, obv.
"Iridium oxide catalyst". It's unlikely to require much iridium. Catalytic converters in cars use platinum and still aren't horribly expensive.
In addition, the first man in space was Juri Gagarin, put there by the communist Soviet Union. Private enterprise may be the future of space travel, but it has little to do with the history.
Perhaps the site would get paid, but that's really not important in the long run. The actual profit is only made when a customer buys something from the advertiser. Making uninterested people listen to a sales pitch is a waste of time. Generating ad views that have no chance of generating a sale is doing a disservice to both the advertiser and the viewer.
How would you feel about an ad blocker that loads the ads in the background without showing them to the reader? That's fine, because Ars Technica gets paid?
Are you really asking about the ratio of
a) Written languages invented fully formed, spread when several individuals who had invented a written language met by accident
and b) Written languages evolved from simple symbols?
I'd say the ratio is about the same as animals created from scratch vs. evolved from simpler ones.
Same here, down to the SSD. I (obviously) still have only 60MB "free" memory but 6240-6250MB available.
Car analogy time. In fact, it's so blatantly obvious I won't even bother writing it down. Instead, I'll turn your claim on its head. Why exactly should any company be allowed to refuse to provide a service to a compatible device?
I may be overly cynical, but I think the talk of piracy while eroding / bypassing every consumer protection law under the sun is more for political reasons than to reassure their customers. They want to cover their asses in advance of the inevitable EFF lawsuits. If they lose any of those, they'll lobby for new laws.
Yes, charging buyers of pre-owned games 20 bucks will show those dirty pirates. In other news, as part of my own ongoing fight against piracy I'll install self-destruct mechanisms and DRM in cars and charging 1k for every driver authentication beyond the first. Because I don't want my car analogies to be pirated. It makes perfect sense, I assure you.
Doesn't seem that way.
In fact, 1934 was colder than 1932 or 1936.
Politicians make the laws. They can't just shrug and say "The courts already decided the issue".
That said, the ISPs have no incentive to spend money policing their customers. I don't think the studios are prepared to pay for any filtering either. Despite what they claim, they don't see piracy as a big enough money drain that spending loads of cash on ISP level policing would be worth it. Piracy is just an excuse to get tighter copyright laws.
I've paid a total of around 500 euros for unlimited data + all my phone calls and text messages over the last two years. Apparently the price of my phone is something like -1000$. Alternatively, the price of a Nexus One is $1500 and T-Mobile bills it as $500 up front and $40 / month over two years.
I checked some Finnish web stores and it looks like the price here is 650 euros, which is around $890. Add the $700 for two years of usage and you have $1600 total.
tl;dr: A Nexus One really costs negative $500.
This still doesn't mean they should be significantly higher than the actual damages. They're currently several orders of magnitude higher than any reasonable approximation of actual damages. Difficult to calculate != set the figure high to punish people more.
It's obviously related to signal strength, the capacity of the network or how the handovers from one tower to another are handled. It always surprises me how people think the size of the surrounding nation affects things like broadband availability and cell phone coverage. Don't give your carriers a free license to suck based on some misplaced nationalistic pride.
And such a wonderful world we live in. A device that provides the same functionality as an old VHS recorder is illegal because it needs to bypass DRM to work. Never mind that we've had VHS for 30+ years and TV shows have been broadcast unencrypted for half a century.
Obviously anyone who wants to release a torrent can easily bypass the DRM and anyone who wants the non-DRM version can download it for free. The only ones who suffer are the ones who pay for their content and won't buy illegal hardware.
Well, they could have gone to GDDR4, but thought...
What about it? It's right next to the Asdfjikl, crossing the Qwertiop.
600 a minute is .1 seconds per hole, not so far from .2. Did you misread it as 2? Presumably a process without physical moving parts can be speeded up more easily as well.
The real story is that 92% of our DNA comes from mutations and not from our ancestors.
His parent's TV may well support HDCP. It doesn't always work.
It's unlikely there are other civilizations in our galaxy. Traveling end-to-end with 0.1 c would take just a million years and the galaxy has been here for 10 000 times that time. Unless we kill ourselves somehow, we'll colonize the galaxy in the next few million years.